Wheaton College suspends tenured, Christian professor over hijab

Wheaton College, the same school that canceled its student health insurance plans rather than let the government arrange for their students to have health insurance plans that cover birth control, has suspended a tenured member of its faculty following her decision to wear a hijab in solidarity with Muslims facing heightened bigotry in the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks.

Larycia Hawkins, a political science professor at the private evangelical Christian college in Chicago’s west suburbs, announced last week that she would wear the veil to show support for Muslims who have been under greater scrutiny since mass shootings in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.

“I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book,” she posted on Facebook.

But it was that explanation of her gesture that concerned some evangelical Christians, who read her statement as a conflation of Christian and Muslim theology.

“While Islam and Christianity are both monotheistic, we believe there are fundamental differences between the two faiths, including what they teach about God’s revelation to humanity, the nature of God, the path to salvation and the life of prayer,” Wheaton College said in a statement.

Well, yeah. There are fundamental differences between the faiths. That’s why they have different books, traditions, rituals and (spoiler alert) names. That doesn’t mean Christians can’t show compassion for those who aren’t on their team, does it? I thought that was the whole point.

And while Wheaton isn’t affiliated with the Catholic Church, so this may carry slightly less weight, didn’t the Vatican just recently announce that Jews, despite not believing in Jesus, can go to Heaven? Because of, among other things, their monotheistic roots?

Once again, Wheaton College’s administrators are being jerks for the sake of being jerks. And once again, some of Christianity’s practitioners have a better handle on the concept of compassion than the bureaucracies that act in its name.

Jon Green
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Wheat college is ground central for the neocons. Back in the late 70s that’s where the merger of Randian economics and fundamentalist Christianity happened. It should come as no surprise to her or anyone else that she was fired for this. Professors applying have to submit a “statement of faith” along with their CV and other information to apply.

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Why does Wheaton College hate Christianity and the Apostle Paul? For surely, in 1 Cor. 1:4-6 we read, “Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.”

“But it was that explanation of her gesture that concerned some evangelical Christians, who read her statement as a conflation of Christian and Muslim theology.“

Thier theology may be different, but really, they’re not all that different – monotheistic, rely on centuries-old books for their belief system, and find the same, cruel punishments to be perfectly acceptable.

I doubt that any one of their “faithful” or students would have any problem making a distinction between the two religions. I’s the non-believers who can hardly tell the difference between the two.